Disclosure
Affiliate Disclosure
Last updated: November 2026
The one-paragraph version
Some links on AI Tool Court are affiliate links. If you click one and buy a subscription, we earn a commission from the vendor — the price you pay is exactly the same. This is the site's only revenue. Our testing protocol and scores are finalized before any affiliate relationship begins, and no vendor can change a score, a verdict, or a ranking.
How it works in detail
- Which links are monetized: buttons and text links that lead to a vendor's paid plans or signup pages. Affiliate links carry
rel="sponsored nofollow"and open in a new tab. Links to free documentation, our own guides, and non-commercial resources are not monetized. - What it costs you: nothing. Commissions are paid by the vendor out of their margin. If you sign up directly, the price is identical.
- What we earn: typically a first-payment or first-year percentage, varying by vendor. We do not publish per-vendor commission rates, but we do publish when a relationship is new: pages carry a "Last updated" date, and score changes are noted at the top of the page.
- What we'd earn without it: nothing — there are no sponsored posts, no paid placements, no display ads at time of writing. If that changes, this page changes first.
How this affects (and doesn't affect) our verdicts
Our scores come from the 5-step testing protocol: identical scripts, blind listening panels, cheapest-plan export checks, measured cost math, and rights reviews. The protocol runs before monetization on every product. Reviews contain "not suitable for" sections and budget picks that are not affiliate products — those sections exist because the testing said so, not because a vendor asked.
Two concrete commitments: (1) if two products test equally, we say so rather than nudging you to the higher-commission one; (2) if a vendor we recommend changes its terms — rights, pricing, quality — and our re-test reflects it, the score changes regardless of the commission.
Other revenue, current and future
As of this update, affiliate commissions are the only revenue. If the site later adds display advertising or paid products (for example, testing templates), those will be disclosed on this page and visually separated from editorial content.
Questions
Anything unclear about how we're funded: editor@aitoolcourt.com.